For the last few weeks nothing has been published on ForArgyll. Not because the scammers have the better of us, nor because there has been some gagging order. No, unfortunately and inevitably, the personal has intersected with the professional and the personal has, of course, become the priority. To that end we’ve paused all activity. We will leave all stories up and running, with comments open, and update on the site if and as we decide we can continue.

In the meantime, it’s been an absolute blast, and our sincere and heartfelt thanks to Lynda (‘Newsie’) who has created something very special and enduring since we opened shop in 2007.

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There will be a lot of conspiracy theorist yoons who will be disappointed that you haven’t outed the deep-state totalitarian Nats who are REALLY behind this !!
Still, meantime, democratic accountability as we’ve come understand it in Argyll & Bute still needs a vigilant eye and for a forum in which expressions of concern can be aired.
This, for example, could have been discussed and might have prompted an explanation of some kind from A&BC …https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2854777/Office-of-Surveillance-Commissioners-Inspection.txt

Could you please look at what you’ve written and – if you can’t lower it clear of the header text and advertising blurb that renders most of your message illegible, find someone who can?
I think that this is the very least that ‘newsie’ deserves – and I very much hope that we haven’t heard the last from her because, as ‘Plugit’ says, she’s been doing a valuable service to the community.

How very unfortunate.
Where will all the demented Nats go now to spout their endless drivel. It was such a shame that they spoiled what could have been reasonable and intelligent debate with their endless moronic garbage.
CJ

Poor Charlie is a right Charlie. I thought all you Tory ukippy types were heading south to brexit land. Seems your immigration might still be allowed.! No harm to anyone but the site is just a right wing blog. Thankfully there are still other sites which are more neutral and fair.

As for chic he can remain in the gutter where he is obviously very comfortable.
Lol

NCH a parting gift from one who has kept tabs on your vile bile, enjoy x one could say you have reached your bitter end, ha, ha, ha.

The Internet Troll

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Sitting in his chair,
Laughing at your pain,
Abuse driven glory,
Its only aim,
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Withdrawn from society,
Curtains drawn close,
Prozac painkillers,
Attention less ghost,
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Viral anger,
Lack of remorse,
Deflecting the pain,
Of his parent’s divorce,
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A knock at his door,
The troll opens it wide,
A recognised face,
Looks him straight in the eyes,
—
Fear grips its body,
As it falls to the floor to the floor,
Its ethereal screams turned to silence,
A troll it was no more….
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The urban legend,
Of the internet troll.
Punished by his own evil…
That devoured his soul.
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look in your mirror
we all know who you are
a narcissistic fool, an empty void
a broken soul that’s so easy to annoy.

Might want to check your ISPN number numpty.we can keep intouch on wings. Mull’it over if you get my drift.

splang? where did you pop up from. Maybe you are the yooniist foreign secretary chappie that doesn’t like immigrants.

or that offensive “spanner” that the BBC don’t mention

You know who I am!!! No you don’t. lol

One right wing blog down. Rejoice rejoice….. how does the hymn go? Now any chance for a Argyll web site with Argyll news.
C’mon Dunoon Observer & Argyllshire Standard heres your chance http://www.dunoon-observer.com/

To think you well reported as being as dead as a dodo or was it a parrot?

From Island on the Edge of the World,
“If the diet of the St Kildans tended to be monotonous, it was partly due to their partiality for sea-birds. Fish, by comparison, was considered to be a very dull dish: not sufficiently oily, it was considered to have no “substance”. Often they would throw the body of the fish to the dogs and keep only the liver for making stuffed FISH HEADS, a favourite delicacy known as ‘Ceann Cropic’.”
My mouth is watering just thinking about it.
Another time in a coastal city in West Africa we had a night out for the staff and their partners (about forty people in all). We all went to a fish restaurant and shared two large barracudas. When the meal was called there was a mad scramble to get in first and get the heads, maybe the Hebrideans retained their African genes.

Ceann-cropaic is correct, of course, but you will see that I have kept it inside inverted coma’s as that is how it was written in the book.
Re your “Tìoraidh an-dràsta”, is “Tìoraidh” not a phonetic Gaelic version of the English Cheerio(is that how it’s spelt)? I remember people saying it like “cheery” as in cheery-bye, but I was not aware that it had entered the written language until now. I’ve just checked and it’s not in Dwelly’s on-line dictionary.

Heard a variation of that concerning Klippfisk. Dried cod from Norway were at one time a big export to Africa, but the recipients often complained that the Norwegians had kept the best bits – the heads – for themselves.

the lowest form of wit, from a petulant separatist twit.you nationalist numpties are so predictable and, that is why the uk government nea rest of the home nations will always get, at the expense of the scottish people, the better of you. small minded wanabee statesmen and women, failed councilors their angry mob rule minions and tartan trolls are destroying scotland aspirations. Be you snp or not you are fish head by proxy a member of the Scottish numpty party.

POOR SPLANG. Sounds upset. As usual the condescending ukippy tory who just appeared recently. I wonder if he is a Dick in real life?
Either way he is in a minority in Scotland -assuming if he actually lives here.Maybe splang needs a spliff? Not condoning drug taking of course- leave that sort of thing to tories and ex labour chairs of HofCards committees.

To change the subject – has anyone got any information about the accident at Port Ann last Wednesday morning? I arrived on the scene just a few minutes after it happened, engine still hot, car upside down, no occupant(s) in sight.

If the roof was intact and no obvious signs of blood I’d say the occupant(s) escaped intact – sorry to sound flippant, Stuart, but it’s just another day on the A83.
One time I noticed a car, apparently intact and the right way up, completely underwater on the shore at Ardgartan – it transpired the police knew about it, and no-one had been trapped, but it gave me a fright.

I am remember complaining years ago about the number of cars that I saw off the road with nothing to indicate whether they had been there for days or recently happened and someone possibly inside (of course with the Police Service of Scotland both could be the case).

Elsewhere it was normal to see a ‘POLICE AWARE’ sticker on the car. At least now it is more common to see some police incident tape or a cone but after the Police Service of Scotland blunder I might have expected them to have a policy of clearly marking accidents that had been dealt with.

I left the scene of the accident only when I saw the blue lights approaching, to allow them space to operate, and when I was driving past the scene a couple of hours later I saw the police had taped it. So I’m not criticising, just curious.

AS. I see your capacity for self-delusion is still working well. Not only are Yes voters still trailing badly, but a majority of Scottish voters have said they don’t want another indyref. Unfortunately, the FM has to keep raising the subject because of braindead Nats like yourself pushing her where she doesn’t want to go.

The last time I had a visit from an SNP supporter he suffered from SNP perforated eardrums and only heard what he wanted to hear.
Hopefully this time the SNP will send someone who is prepared to listen to my views on independence.

Robert – a wee note about the Biased Broadcasting Corporation’s obvious political leanings. Online headlines this morning are “MPs attack Cameron over Lybia Collapse” when it was in fact only a few MPs (representing Parliament) on the Foreign Affairs Committee. Further down, so obviously not so important to the BBC, was the good news that British unemployment was down plus other encouraging information. This was changed mid morning and moved even further down to the less obvious “No Brexit effect in latest jobs data”.The banner headline re Mr Cameron will no doubt stay all day.

It is a great pity that this stimulating and frequently informative site is on hold; I cannot imagine why anybody can rejoice – I happen to be a Nationalist, but I am not a bigot and I am interested and educated by access to a spectrum of views. It was bold of this site to permit open debate, and by and large that latitude led to some very useful comment. It is hard to credit that some of the mindless material was truly contributed by fellow Nationalists, but in truth almost anybody can write silly things if it is very late at night. Anyway, I for one am sorry to see Argyll diminished in this way and I thank Lynda for her outstanding contribution to local affairs.

So tell me! Was the march through Oban a few days ago by flag waving members of the SNP a march of remembrance for the day two years ago when the SNP suffered their greatest defeat, or were these the few who really believe that Sturgeon will try for a second Independence referendum. The rest of us realise that she is just trying to keep the extremists on side by innuendo – but do they ?

Most of the media this morning comment on the success of the UK economy post Brexit – even the Guardian ! What ‘eejit’ of a political leader would want to separate her group from such a successful organisation – only one trying desperately to keep her inferiority complexed ‘soldiers’ onside. For the sake of Scotland she knows there will be no further independence referendum but has to keep up the drip feed of pretence to stop her followers leaving to join the new hard left socialist Labour Party..

Morning all ! As nothing else of interest is happening I’ll just mention something from yesterday which convinces me that the BBC is a real and threatening Political Party. One person out of the 60 million odd in this country voiced a personal opinion – not backed up by anything or anyone else – he said he thought Boris Johnston had not really wanted Brexit. I repeat – one person in over 60 million without any corroboration on any sort and yet the Biased Broadcasting Corporation made it their online national news headline for much of the day. It’s not that they attacked Boris necessarily, it’s their total arrogance that they think they could do this to anyone they don’t like, thereby politically influencing the opinions of the viewing and listening public.That’s not in their Charter !

Perhaps because people agree with you ? The point is the BBC can do this because they are funded by the licence fee a totally out of date regressive tax that makes as much sense as a window or even bedroom tax. Time for the Beeb to earn its keep via subscriptions or advertising.

There are 25 million homes and therefore 25 million license holders in the UK. That can fairly be translated as 25 million ‘shareholders’ in a public company. As the subscribers they deserve to be informed with fair and balanced news which is not happening – see todays headline ! Incidentally did you see the report of a few days ago that BBC reporters are paid about 40% more than the reporters working for other news media i.e. Sky, ITV, Channel 4 etc. Now that would have made a interesting headline for consideration by the ‘shareholders’.

What work Robert ? She is not a business executive working on an interview or sales presentation in London or Glasgow, who needs to concentrate and prepare. She has accommodation in London which must be much more conducive to work in than an aircraft on a fairly short flight, and if she is not out playing down there then she should have plenty time to get on with whatever work she has to attend to. Actually I don’t really care what her excuse is – she should not be milking the system.

Never mind the travel expenses, what about her constituents? Unlike the previous incumbent who, whatever his failings might be, was a good constituency MP, people are complaining that the new broom doesn’t exactly work as advertised.

If this is so, then perhaps it’s another indicator that the increasing trend for national politicians to have no experience of life outside politics – in effect, to be running before they’ve learnt to walk – is not healthy.

I can tell you – she gets on with no work. I know because I’ve sat near her on many occasions – along with most of the SNP posse. I’ve raised the issue of MPs choosing the most expensive method of getting from Edinburgh/Glasgow to London on these pages quite a few times in the past.

London City is generally the most expensive airport to fly from, albeit extremely convenient if you work in the City – which the MPs don’t. I’m pretty sure there is no such thing as ‘Business Class’ – unless that entitles you to choose your own seat and hold luggage tho.

Rather than choose the very very cheap Easyjet flight, our MPs choose to fly from City, enjoy breakfast on the way down and a drink on the way back up as well as mixing with the business elite of London rather than the riff raff who choose Easyjet…

Having done both routes equally over the years, the main let down of Gatwick is the shuttle to the other terminal. 30mins flat from Victoria. Vs two hot and crowded journeys on the Jubilee line and then over to the DLR.

Nice to get a chance to tell you are so so wrong yet again – I don’t read the Express or any other of the ‘gossip sheets’ like ‘The National. The story came from reliable sources. Good to hear JB confirm that virtually all the SNP MPs are using the gravy train at our expense. According to the BBC this afternoon I see one them has been charged with fraud. Could be applied to that lot at Holyrood as well.

There is NO business class JB you know that. You are not pretty sure you know. So its ok for you to travel on BA. Hypocrite. This is a wee diversion from a previous Tory MSP from Argyll who claimed how much for a taxi? Why didn’t he fly EasyJet?

After all the years of Labour, and their prestitutes, spreading unfounded lies about Scotland and it’s party of choice there are still many who just can’t help themselves and jump in feet first.
Wings, as always, make mincemeat of their pathetic stories. They actually show that the cost of powerless Scots MP’s totally unnecessary travel to Westminster has reduced since the Unionist MP’s wipe out by the voters.

Two things are interesting here. Firstly, when in a hole, the SNP always have the backstop of ‘we’re no worse than anyone else’. Some measure. Secondly – they seem to think that because the flight was not technically a business class flight, spending £450 a pop rather than £80 is somehow acceptable.

This is the very day Sturgeon took one of her day trips down to London to preach about austerity and how bad it is. Leather seats, plenty leg room, free breakfast, free booze on way home – austerity Westminster MP style.

The same day that the SNP refused to celebrate the arrival of the first of a series of ships that have kept Grangemouth plant open and hundreds of jobs- thanks to, in part, a grant from..the Scottish Government. THey put money into a project that is totally dependant on Fracked gas – but refuse to allow fracking in Scotland.

The same day Natalie McGarry is charged with embezzlement – this is the same McGarry that you know wings will have defended in the past Murdoch.

Aye…a good one. Scotland is a mess and people like you will find any excuse for them. We should be booting them out and letting real politicians run the country. I’ve not mentioned CAP payments yet, of how Sturgeon incessantly talks Scotland down at every opportunity these days – apparantly Scotland being part of global trade again is not a good think. Apparantly bringing back sovereignty is bad. Apparantly leaving a totally corrupt and undemocratic organisation is to be regretted.

My prediction – in 4.5years time, the Tories will be in minority government.

Not to mention the GP recruitment crisis nor the fact they can’t recruit a dentist for Lochgilphead, educated professional people will simply not move to Scotland whilst there is a talk of referendum and independence. The damage is done.

The so called point about the flexible tickets is a bit of a red herring – yes, they offer flexibility – and so you would expect at £3/400+ a pop rather than £60 for an Easyjet flight. Which btw, even at the very last minute can get you home for £146.99 in the worst case – the ‘flexibility’ argument doesn’t stand up.

I simply don’t understand why people like you Longshanks will defend the SNP against anything. Why do you not support me that a party that complains endlessly about austerity should at least demonstrate some restraint themselves?

These guys are on over £70,000 a year. Plus expenses. And you are defending them.

It seems very likely, a friend of mine moved out of Scotland within the last couple of years because of the SNP and possibility of independence. Many more would probably do so also but cannot afford it so quite likely it is also putting people off coming here to live and work.

I initially contacted Newsie because I was trying to plug my book, which she did an article on, but I had been reading For Argyll for some time. It was extraordinary to me that a news outlet/ website that was not from a main stream outlet could provide such a clear analysis of current affairs, regional, national and international that was comparable to what I might see in a broadsheet newspaper. Whether I agreed with it or not, and I certainly did not always, I found it principled, on the ball and very sharp in analysis. It was also clear that it was prepared to take a position on things.

The politics were not always my politics- indeed for the most part they were not. There is a human tendency to think that if someone’s politics do not agree with your own, then there is something perverse or contrary to them. That was not so in this case and even where I disagreed with what was being said, I could not say that it was polemic because it was explained with care, with detail and with data that was accurate. Sometimes then my views coincided with what I read; many times they did not. My thoughts on the illegality of drone strikes were in direct opposition to hers, yet she asked me to write an article setting out my case, while she then wrote an essay opposing mine.

I fell into the habit of reading For Argyll because looking round the country at regional news outlets I saw something rare. Tap into most websites of outlying newspapers in Cornwall or Caithness, or Lincolnshire, or Lothian, and what you get is stale fodder, uncontroversial, unchallenging and fearful of grappling with issues.

Not so in Argyll. Fury, anger, spleen, passion, rage, satire, enmity and folk who are just black affrontit inhabit the comments sections like bees to honey. Show me another such place where wars are fought, robust and creative debate is stimulated and intelligent rants are fired. I’d read just the comments alone, for the life of the community is writ large there and in glorious technicolour.

It’s just downright entertaining!

In short I think you in Argyll have something special there, provocative of discussion, demanding thought in depth and stimulating; and you’re lucky to have it.

The Tories on here are suffering from pent up racism. Please,please get this site up on National Lampoons Political spoof site.
I have noticed how pleasant everyone one is in Argyll,since the blog went Down,wink,wink.
Long May(. I suddenly have a loathing for that word) the goodwill continue.
Just to end on a bright note,what uniform will the Tory Party be wearing during Halloween?

I wonder how many SNP MSPs there would be if the thumbs up/thumbs down figures applied to Salmon’s posts were reflected at Holyrood. The figures of course posted by real people not the SNP drones who have filled the top half of this page as instructed by their desperate mistress Sturgeon.

Tories falling out over dogs Brexit. The greedy ones have clocked that ,bad for ones wallet,rules!
Despicable bunch,these Tories.
Look forward to rebellion in Jan 2017,as the Britnats find out they cannot afford their usual pissfest in Benidorm. Shit will hit the fan then.
On a plus,The Orient of England,Blackpool,will be rubbing their withered hands!!

I hope the party faithful come knocking to generate support for indyref2. I’ll take pleasure in telling them I voted SNP previously as I thought a Scottish focused Government would be a good thing, unlike other Scottish parties who must have some influence from big brother down south. I did not vote SNP to get independence and assumed once in power they would make best use of it. But now, they got wilder eyed and the thirst for independent blood grew stronger. We had a vote. I voted no. We’re now faced with another vote. It will still be no. And guess what, at the election SNP will definitely not be getting my vote again. Their opportunity to prove themselves in Government has been squandered with this obsession to the extent it overshadows everything else and they are objectionable on principle.
An example? Some Conservatives suggested a new Royal Yacht, SNP rose up an decried it as wasteful and a stupid idea. Did not one SNP MSP or MP think for a second that Scotland has a proud shipbuilding tradition and several limping shipyards its desperate to keep afloat and has a whole executive agency who regularly need to buy or build large passenger ferries? This could have been an opportunity to build on that but dogma stood in the way.
Instead, it is happy to piss £tens of millions keeping loss making Prestwick alive with no obvious plan to turn it around beyond a ‘space port’.
Decisions like this shake my faith that SNP really has any competence to manage itself, never mind manage an independent country.

The reality is, none of the other parties will do a bad job as by and large, the Scottish population and its public servants are sensible people. Roll on the next parliamentary election in Scotland. Time for change.

‘…but dogma stood in the way’, a common trait, a disquieting number of politicians – of all persuasions – seem to be dogma driven (or, to cover the spectrum, ‘in default mode’ / ‘swivel-eyed’ / displaying signs of rabies) far too often.
Products of an immature democracy?, or maybe just lazy, cynical, preening, self-serving trumps (same as – or worse than – shits, but less likely to be snagged by a computerised internet filter).

hahaha, good to see you’re still talking nonsense. The internal repressive machinations of the SNP over the past few years has been something to behold!

Tell me though, what do you think about brexit? What should Nippy do? I don’t quite get why she has set a hard brexit as one of her benchmarks! A hard brexit would all but guarantee the same result as 2014. Must admit though it’s a pity, if only they had the strength of conviction and go for the full bells and whistles with Europe, I would probably vote Yes.

Poor John M & co. They continue their silly comments of the First Minister.They have np arguments.
Latest Polls. SNP out vote tories, labour and lib dems together.

Good to see this pro tory anti Argyll blog is still in its death throws. It sided with the minority brexiters. They are panicking in Scotland. Ukip FIGHT EACH OTHER. Johnston is froun out to be a liar. Is he a leave or a remain? See you sometime

Britnat xenophobic nutters wonder why there is going to be another Indiref.
The vow wasn’t respected so they’ll be another referendum,and maybe an indiref3, indiref4 and so on,until the wasters honour a vow!!

I do find it strange A Salmon that you gloat over the demise of Scotlands greatest trading partner i guess it shows how much contempt you show for your fellow Scot afterall there the ones that will suffer . Also as a matter of interest why do you keep posting on this site when you hate.

Surprised you weren’t more of a regular in the Dolphin. It’s only a few yards along the road. Plenty republican type bhoys in there to spill your bile to.
But then, dolphins and salmon, it wouldn’t end well.

Ah, another typical top quality response from the king of fish.
Raw nerve perhaps?

I wonder if, like so many other rabid proponents of independent republican status for Scotland, his lot were out on the wrong side in the glorious revolution? There certainly appears to be a trend there don’t you think.?
Just speculating of course!!

Well, doesn’t look like this site is coming back any time soon. I wonder if there is any appetite for a replacement?

What I have in mind is a site which:

a) Reports news that primarily affects Argyll, and leaves national/international issues largely alone except where there is an Argyll context

b) That adopts a neutral reporting style for most reports or, where there is a strongly slanted opinion piece, balances it with an opposing view at the same time or within days. Cybernattery or pro-unionist propaganda would therefore be confined to the comments section and kept out of the articles.

c) That makes extensive use of guest posters, as I certainly do not have time to take on Newsie’s mantle

The primary thing that would decide me to go ahead with this would be a sufficient number of guest authors and editors to help me take the task on. I have all the necessary IT skills. The domain name ForArgyll.co.uk is already registered.

If anyone is interested in this then please get in touch – you will be able to work out how to find me if you do not know already.

In Neil M Gunn’s allegorical novel, “HIGHLAND RIVER”. the Salmon of Wisdom swam in the Pool of Knowledge.
Happy Days!
Our Bradan, however,appears to be a poor, spent, husk of a fish, swimming in an ever decreasing circle in an ever shallowing pond of his own cess, offering nothing original, spouting received wisdom, and using what remains of his energy to blame everyone else for his misfortune.
Now who does that remind me of, surely not that other famously chippy Jock with a similar monikker,who used to lead the SNP?

I suppose, Steve, draining the swamp has its attractions, but then, where else would one find such lighthearted fun as can be so easily had, baiting these fellows?
Tally Ho!!

Just been revealed that 8 of the top ten travel expenses claims, have been from SNP MPs – and Mhairi Black is not even one of them this time with her £350 single flight costs from London City Airport. These 8 have cost £239,366 MORE, repeat MORE, than the MPs who held the seat before them. These are the people ScotsRenewables touches his forelock to. Come back LINDA – we desperately need your input again.

You are an ass! The MPs list past year have spent £1.5 million less than the Labour ones thrown out.
Of course the savings would have been higher if the ONE Tory,ONE LIEBOUR and the liar Carmichael were booted out also.

Cinema magazine programme. Francine Stock visits Campbeltown on the west coast of Scotland, where the community have come together to save their art deco cinema. The Uckfield Picture House celebrates its centenary in 2016 and for over 50 years it’s been owned by one family. Kevin Markwick has been with the cinema since he was babe in arms and talks about his life in pictures.
(Repeated Sunday)
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Excerpt taken from DigiGuide – the world’s best TV guide available from http://www.getdigiguide.tv/?p=1&r=7346

Robert, on the day when the effects of the SNP’s disastrous “decade of failure” regarding the education records of our schools and schoolchildren are plastered across the front pages of several newspapers, pointing out to “A.Salmon” that he can’t spell merely confirms that he is a product of that “decade of failure”.

His lack of education has been evidence from virtually every post he’s made here. I just wonder if he realises how badly he has been let down by the SNP. And as for claiming that the “Indy party” has 58% backing, I guess he’s not intelligent enough to realise that this is not the same as the percentage supporting independence, which has recently fallen.

You talk some shite.
9% of no voters have gone to YES. = 54%, because of Brexit, I understand.
9% of YES voters have gone To No,as they don’t fancy the EU.
Now,once the Tory disaster hits folks in pocket,in the new year,how many come back to YES,is anyone’s guess. I reckon 6% anyway.
That would mean YES at 51% going into a referendum. I fancy our chances to up that to 60% once Brexit is triggered!

Aleppo – I wonder if any of those who previously decried british involvement in action overseas can proudly hold their heads up high and say emphatically we were right not to get involved.
Shame on you!

Oh how I like the silence on here. Argyll returns to the peaceful,tranquil place it always was,before the Little Britishers appeared.
Great day today. May was sent to Coventry in Brussels. That’s a frigging first. Credit where credits due.
The Scottish Gov outflanked the stupid Unionists.
All going our way. On to 2017 and Independence.

Where’s the SNP guy on here who prophesied a $60 barrel by New Year? Were there bets involved? It’s only at $55 but it’s a bit more complicated than that.
Back then a $35 barrel was worth £25 in confetti money.
Today a $55 barrel is worth £44.50 of Brexit Pounds.
At the rate pertaining when the bets were placed that would be almost $63.

Oh look, MM straining at gnats in pretending that the oil price is above $60 a barrel. In fact, the original prediction was of $65/barrel and was made by “Nae Fear Here” who then changed his name to “Hugh Jazz” as he found it increasingly difficult to sustain his ridiculous claims on this and other matters. “Hugh Jazz” then disappeared to be replaced very shortly afterwards by “A Salmon” expousing the same failed causes and using very similar juvenile language. These SNP acolytes have demonstrated, one after the other, the paucity of their arguments, intellect and, often enough, commonsense, as they slavishly try to maintain the SNP line.
Going back to the oil price, it is always expressed in US dollars and while converting it to pounds might show up the current weakness of the pound it doesn’t change the quoted price of the oil one jot. Whichever name you want to give to the SNP troll who posted his claim of $65, he was wrong.

That guy Nae Fear Here is maybe onto something. Brent is at $57 a barrel now and still rising. How did he know and how did the yoons get it so wrong. I want Indi right now. I don’t listen to yoonies anymore. I would advise all to contact the Overseer who is NFH,to tell us what’s going to happen in 2017!
I heard Mayday is trying to get him or Her,on the Brexit Hotline!!

Clearly time to improve your education, AS, which isn’t difficult, given your appallingly low starting place.
The meaning of bigot is: “a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group with hatred and intolerance”, which is a much better description of the SNP than it is of Brexiteers.

Always angry,always supercilious.
Pound Sterling down 20% against 56 out of 60 top currencies. The uk is a disaster zone under Mayhem.
English NHS in a ” humanitarian crisis” sounds like the Tories are in charge!
Nicola playing one of the best chess games ever,in the history of politics!
You better start educating yourself,you twat!

Not very good at economics, are you, AS? Pound down 20%, so goods cheaper to sell abroad and exporting firms flourish, including many in Scotland. And, typically, you draw attention to the English NHS while not mentioning the mess the Scottish NHS is in, thanks to years of mis-management and under-funding by the SNP, despite their repeated promises. And as for Nicola, isn’t it time she dealt with education and healthcare in Scotland rather than constantly harping on about Indyref2 about which she seems more and more muddled, wanting to leave one union while staying in another?

When ForArgyll went on to hold I was much saddened by its demise but always hoped that it would return and start putting our wee corner of the world to rights again.

It has always been a challenging site which was not feart to cock a snook at authority and challenge popular opinion. It was not afraid to be wrong and was honest enough to admit when it was. It was something of a beacon in a journalistic world that has become so clouded by vested interests.

I have often found myself challenged by this site. Its views have annoyed and delighted me in equal measure (and sometimes both at the same time!).

We are now descending into the age of post-truth politics where a mendacious social media has taken over from even, vaguely honest, accountable politics and has the power to ensure the election of a carpet bagging, mendacious bully into the most powerful elected office on Earth. It is such a shame that this essentially honest and principled site has descended into a playground for a never-ending blame game between nationalists and unionists. It has become its own version of Groundhog day.

I really would love to hear ‘Newsie’s’ opinion on events within and without Argyll again. ForArgyll deserves better than this!

Wouldn’t we all Bob. To me it was shear arrogance for all those involved in producing ForArgyll to walk out without a full explanation to those of us who had contributed to making it what it was over the years.

‘Shear arrogance'(sic) is over-egging it by a long way, Malcolm, and remember just how much vindictive sniping there was by people without the guts to identify themselves.
I think that the For Argyll folk deserve great credit for tolerating all the garbage in the interests of free speech – I would have been sorely tempted to ‘out’ some of the more vicious commentators (and recommend they seek counselling on the state of their mental health, before they get into real trouble).

I don’t withdraw ‘ shear arrogance’ Robert. When the people at ForArgyll actively encouraged so many members of the public to join in open debate online, you don’t just close it down virtually without explanation, and yes, without an Editor it is closed down. Whether there is some advertising income from the little that still exists could be the reason it has not shut totally. The attitude reminds me of a landowner who treats his tenants in the same manner – “Its mine, all mine,so I will do as I want – you don’t matter”.
PS. Was there any public money subsidising ForArgyll ?

If you can’t see that all the lies are coming from the Clinton/Obama camp and the lunatics that think they can push American voters back from their choice of The Donald as their Leader to drain the swamp, then you do not understand that the US voters, ably assisted by social media, especially Wikileaks, are riding back to power on a wave of truth.
You need to stop watching and listening to the lies of the MSM, the people have found them out as voter events in England, the US and soon in many EU nations are hopefully going to result in a clearing out of the stables. It won’t be easy but the truth will overcome.

I think it is a lot more complicated than that. The MSM have their problems but Buzzfeed has been discredited and no one with any sense trusts Twitter as a source.

Wikileaks seem to do whatever Moscow tells them – no coincidence that in their supposed search for the truth they never release anything from Russia.

At least lots of people in many countries are now talking seriously about the end of the Eurozone and possible break up of the EU which will be accelerated by the financial crisis when the UK leaves (excluding Germany, Britain’s contribution is more than the total net contribution of the 26 other EU states combined). Anyone wanting to join this disaster must be crazy!

Yes Steve time is against the SNP as a nation we are all getting older. You can just see all the oldies rushing to change there £ for Salmon dollars. They will be very handy when they visit there grand children in England . I suspect history will find that Sept 14 was the high point. Not one SNP supporter has ever answered my question why do you want to leave one club and join another especially as after we leave the French will try and make the French language the dominant language spoken. Perhaps AS will give us his thoughts on this

Poor plugit- hate the French. Is it because the English and French are all Norman?
See Machrihanish as a space port delayed due to the brexit right wingers like plug it. Well done brexiters . Thought everything would get better?

Sorry to disappoint you no cheese but I voted to remain for historical reasons I have a passionate hatred of nationalism of any kind right left wing it does not matter. It has a bad habit of destroying countries Germany Spain the Balkins etc to name a few in recent history. But by a democratic vote we voted to go so I have to accept that and go forward

Hate is a very negative emotion but heh there are ways to deal with such issues.
You must hate the UN it is full of independent states. Have you never heard of civic nationalism?, so many different types of course . Your hatred has forced you into 1 way of thought. Bit like Steve Barlow who hates as well.
The democratic vote of Scotland was to remain. By 62%. Yet you would ignore this? The Scottish elections – you ignore this? Westminster elections – you ignore this? The No campaign literature of which there is plenty made it clear to Voters– vote No – remain in the Eu. Things have changed. Brexiters and britnats will need to get used to it.

A top European official said yesterday that an independent Scotland would not still be a member of the EU and that it could take several years to join and would include using the Euro as its currency. Is that really what you are looking forward to, AS?

More lies from the bitterist of the bitters. Ms.Minor said Scotland should be fast tracked into EU. You @ssholes are now scrapping the barrel. Nothing to offer,never had anything to offer,now of you pop!

Did Ms Minor really say that, AS? According to a report I’ve read today, she said that Scotland would have to join a queue including the likes of Montenegro and Macedonia. She also said that the official EU line is that there will be no new admissions before 2020. She also managed to say it without resorting to the kind of childish language that you regularly indulge in. Grow up, little boy.

I would think the EU have enough problems trying to survive rather than considering expansion. There is a growing number of countries unhappy about membership of the EU and the loss of the UK leaves a huge hole in the EU budget.

So speaketh the brightest of nationalists. Nae so wee brownshirt…and I think you will fin that Brexit was not the creation of the tories my wee matey, and that soon enough there will be more to follow. So what are your plans for our bonnie country a) when the uk leave the EU and b)when Scotland leaves the EU.????

Sic a parcel of rogues…. never a truer phrase written. The mad yoons on here see their Empire disintegration continue unabated.
The yoonatics are loosing,and the campaign hasn’t begun. The economy is about to tank,everything looking good for the next Indi Ref. Argyll about to be liberated from interbred colonists?

Well AS you know history has a habit of repeating its self. In the early 1980,s Thatcher set up Scargill the miners leader and forced him to call his coal strike in March the worst possible month to start. Well Teresa May has set up Sturgeon.
Our first minister has no option but to declare a new referendum at the party conference again the worst possible time to declare. Europe is in turmoil with France Holland Italy and Greece all having major problems . The Brexit negotiations will not be finished when the referendum takes place. And maybe you don’t remember the miners lost

This is what I asked AS a few days ago: “Tell me, AS, because neither Sturgeon nor Salmond seem able to, what currency will Scotland use if it becomes independent? Obviously the answer hasn’t come through from SNP Central so the poor little boy can’t tell me.

It boils, or at least renders down to this superb comment doing the rounds;Sturgeon: “the SNP is not racist or anti-English” ,,, the Gimp Fae Govan Sturgeon, you are 100% correct the SNP are Fascisti where the SNP Rats in the Sack have the political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader Sturgeon, with severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition, so when the SNP Rat Taxes kick in and the SNP “Screw up your Happiness” you know what to do if the Gimp Fae Govan Sturgeon has the balls to date stamp IndiRef2 and manages to take over “Total Control” of your country, then Scotland is finished and it puts a whole new meaning on “Foly Huck”…

Wee Nic is the most popular poli in YooKay,by a country mile.
SKY and these other lying bastards,the BBC,where spouting forth,a week ago,they Mayhem and No Truth Harrison were more popular.
In any case,the Unionists are in Panic mode now,as they have no more lies to tell.

“Hypocrisy” he cried…to himself in the mirror, LOL… Dumb ass.
I hear spring has been suspended until June, oh and it seems the blossom will be vibrant blue in the UK, no doubt matching the blue tartan knickers of the Red Dwarf of Irvin, nee gobshite from scheme.
Payback time for the pseudo national socialists and their ilk…

ooohps there is me spouting it off on a dead site again… true to form off to the nether regions of the net now to scan the sense and incest of WINGS… ya fucked pal.

I wonder if A Salmon would like to reflect on his last post indicating that the Unionists would suffer in the general election. Oh, how little people’s childish remarks come back to bite them. A commentator on the radio pondered how Sturgeon (who lost 21 MPs) had the cheek to urge May (who lost just 12 MPs) to resign. If anyone should resign, it’s Sturgeon!